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American media franchise

Ripley's Believe It or Not! is an American franchise founded by Robert Ripley, which deals in baroque events and items so foreign and unusual that readers might question the claims. Originally a newspaper panel, the Believe It or Non feature proved pop and was later adapted into a wide multifariousness of formats, including radio, television, comic books, a chain of museums and a volume serial.

The Ripley drove includes 20,000 photographs, xxx,000 artifacts and more than than 100,000 cartoon panels. With 80-plus attractions, the Orlando, Florida-based Ripley Entertainment, Inc., a division of the Jim Pattison Group a Canadian global visitor with an annual attendance of more than 12 one thousand thousand guests. Ripley Entertainment's publishing and broadcast divisions oversee numerous projects, including the syndicated TV series, the paper cartoon panel, books, posters and games.

Syndicated feature panel [edit]

Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Writer(south)
  • Robert Ripley (1919–1949)
  • Paul Frehm (1949–1978)
  • Walter Frehm (1978–1989)

John Graziano (1989–present)
Launch date December 19, 1918
Alternate name(s) Champs and Chumps (1918–1919)
Syndicate(s)
  • Associated Newspapers (1924–1929)
  • King Features Syndicate (1930–1989)[one]
  • United Feature Syndicate (1989–present)
Genre(s) Baroque facts

Ripley showtime called his drawing feature, originally involving sports feats, Champs and Chumps, and it premiered on December 19, 1918, in The New York Globe. Ripley began adding items unrelated to sports, and in October 1919, he changed the title to Believe Information technology or Non. When the Earth folded in 1923, Ripley moved to the New York Evening Mail service. In 1924, the console began being syndicated by Associated Newspapers,[ii] (formed as role of a cooperative that had included the Globe). That same yr, Ripley hired Norbert Pearlroth as his researcher, and Pearlroth spent the next 52 years of his life in the New York Public Library, working ten hours a day and six days a week in guild to find unusual facts for Ripley.[3]

Other writers and researchers included Lester Byck. In 1930, Ripley moved to the New York American and was picked up by the King Features Syndicate, being quickly syndicated on an international basis.[4]

Ripley died in 1949; those working on the syndicated newspaper console after his death included Paul Frehm (1938–1978; he became the full-time creative person in 1949), and his brother Walter Frehm (1948–1989); Walter worked part-time with his brother Paul and became a full-fourth dimension Ripley artist from 1978 to 1989. Others who assisted included Clem Gretter (1941–1949), Bob Clarke (1943–1944), Joe Campbell (1946–1956), Art Sloggatt (1971–1975), Carl Dorese, and Stan Randall. Paul Frehm won the National Cartoonists Society'southward Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award for 1976 for his work on the serial. Clarke subsequently created parodies of Believe It or Non! for Mad, as did Wally Forest and Ernie Kovacs, who besides did a recurring satire called "Strangely Believe It!" on his TV programs. Other strips and books borrowed the Ripley blueprint and format, such equally Ralph Graczak'due south Our Own Oddities, John Hix's Strange as It Seems, and Gordon Johnston's It Happened in Canada. The current artist is John Graziano and current researcher is Sabrina Sieck.[5]

At the peak of its popularity, the syndicated feature was read daily past nearly fourscore million readers, and during the first 3 weeks of May 1932 alone, Ripley received over two million pieces of fan post. Dozens of paperback editions reprinting the newspaper panels have been published over the decades. Recent Ripley'due south Believe Information technology or Not! books containing new textile take supplemented illustrations with photographs.

Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz's first publication of artwork was published by Ripley. It was a cartoon challenge his domestic dog was "a hunting canis familiaris who eats pins, tacks, screws, nails and razor blades".[6] Schulz's dog Spike afterward became the model for Peanuts' Snoopy.[7]

Books [edit]

Some notable books:

  • Believe It or Non! by Ripley The Big Fiddling Book (1931)
  • Ripley's Believe It or Not (1929), reprinted in 2004
  • Ripley's Mammoth Volume of Believe It or Not (1953)
  • Ripley's Behemothic Book of Believe It or Non (1976)
  • Ripley's 35th Anniversary Believe Information technology or Not (1954)
  • Ripley's 50th Anniversary Believe Information technology or Not (1968)
  • Ripley's Believe It or Non Special Edition 2012 (2011)

A series of paperback books containing annotated sketches from the newspaper feature:

  • Ripley's Believe It or Not 1st Series (1941)
  • Ripley'southward Believe It or Not 2nd Series (1948)
  • Ripley's Believe It or Not tertiary Series (1954)
  • Ripley's Believe It or Non 34th Series (1982)

Ripley Entertainment produces a range of books featuring unusual facts, news stories and photographs. In 2004 Ripley Amusement founded Ripley Publishing Ltd, based in the U.k., to publish new Believe It or Non titles.[8] The visitor produces the New York Times bestselling Ripley's Believe Information technology or Not! Annuals, the children's fiction series Ripley's RBI, an educational series chosen the Ripley's Twists, the Ripley's Believe It or Not! Special Edition in conjunction with Scholastic USA and a number of other titles.[nine] [x] [xi] At the summit of his popularity Robert Ripley received thousands of letters a twenty-four hours from the public,[12] and Ripley Entertainment continues to encourage submissions from readers who accept strange stories and photographs that could be featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! books and media.[13]

The people whose items are featured in such books as Strikingly True, have what Edward Meyer, Vice President of Exhibits and Archives at Ripley Amusement Inc. describes equally an obsession: "Any it is they're later, information technology is so important to them that all the rest of the world tin can go on without them. They want to brand something that makes them immortal, makes them a little different than you and me".[14] Despite the wide range of truthful and unbelievable art, sculpture, photographs, interactive devices, animal oddities, and recycled objects contained within the Ripley'due south collection, rarely considered are conflicting or witchcraft-blazon stories, which are, according to Meyers, hard to prove. To exist included in Ripley'due south Believe It or Not books, museums, or television shows, items must undergo scrutiny from Ripley'southward staff and exist 100% authenticated.[14]

Radio [edit]

On April 14, 1930, Ripley brought "Believe It or Not" to radio, the showtime of several serial heard on NBC, CBS and the Common Broadcasting Organisation.[15] As noted by the website Ripley On Radio, Ripley'due south broadcasts varied in length from fifteen minutes to 30 minutes and aired in numerous different formats. When Ripley'due south 1930 debut on The Collier 60 minutes brought a strong listener reaction, he was given a Mon night NBC series beginning Apr 14, 1930, followed past a 1931–32 series ambulation twice a calendar week. After his foreign stories were dramatized on NBC'southward Sabbatum Party, Ripley was the host of The Baker's Broadcast from 1935 to 1937. He was scheduled in several different 1937–38 NBC timeslots and then took to the road with popular remote broadcasts. See America Offset with Bob Ripley (1938–40) on CBS expanded geographically into See All the Americas, a 1942 program with Latin music. In 1944, he was heard v nights a calendar week on Mutual in shows with an accent on World War Two. Romance, Rhythm and Ripley aired on CBS in 1945, followed past Pages from Robert L. Ripley'due south Radio Scrapbook (1947–48).

Robert Ripley is known for several radio firsts. He was the beginning to circulate nationwide on a radio network from mid-ocean, and he also participated in the first broadcast from Buenos Aires to New York Metropolis. Assisted by a corps of translators, he was the start to broadcast to every nation in the world simultaneously.[xvi]

As the years went on, the show became less virtually oddities and featured guest-driven entertainment such as comedy routines. Sponsors over the course of the program included Drapery Mall cigarettes and General Foods. The program concluded its successful run in 1948 as Ripley prepared to catechumen the prove format to tv.

Films, television, Net, and computer game [edit]

The paper characteristic has been adapted into more than a few films and TV shows.

Film [edit]

  • Ripley hosted a series of 2 dozen Believe Information technology or Not! theatrical curt films between 1930 and 1932 for Warner Bros. Vitaphone. A 2-DVD release featuring 24 of these theatrical shorts is bachelor in the U.s. outset March sixteen, 2010, from Warner Home Video, through their Warner Archive industry-on-demand programme.[17] Directors on the shorts included Murray Roth (on the first five), Roy Mack and Alfred J. Goulding (latter half of second flavour). Leo Donnelly assisted later on commentary. The titles of the series were all numbered accordingly:
    • No. 1 / Vitaphone No. 1005, released May 4, 1930
    • No. two / Vitaphone No. 1038, June 11, 1930
    • No. 3 / Vitaphone No. 1053, Baronial 31, 1930 (Moving-picture show Daily review date)
    • No. 4 / Vitaphone No. 1067, released September 5, 1930
    • No. v / Vitaphone No. 1093, released September 12, 1930
    • No. 6 / Vitaphone No. 1109, November 5, 1930
    • No. 7 / Vitaphone No. 1148, January 5, 1931 (features Medal of Laurels recipient Daniel R. Edwards)
    • No. eight / Vitaphone No. 1172, February xx, 1931
    • No. 9 / Vitaphone No. 1189, released May 2, 1931
    • No. x / Vitaphone No. 1197, released July 5, 1931
    • No. 11 / Vitaphone No. 1211, released July 12, 1931
    • No. 12 / Vitaphone No. 1267, released September 1931 (with extensive travelogue footage of Arab republic of egypt)
    • No. 2-1 / Vitaphone No. 1282, released November 5, 1931 (focuses on Algeria, Egypt and Morocco)
    • No. 2-2 / Vitaphone No. 1294, released Dec three, 1931
    • No. 2-3 / Vitaphone No. 1304, released December 1931
    • No. 2-4 / Vitaphone No. 1320, released January 2, 1932 (features child actor Billy Hayes visiting "Believe It or Not Land")
    • No. 2-five / Vitaphone No. 1336, released March 20, 1932
    • No. 2-6 / Vitaphone No. 1346, released March 13, 1932
    • No. two-7 / Vitaphone No. 1361
    • No. ii-viii / Vitaphone No. 1362
    • No. 2-9 / Vitaphone No. 1363, Apr 23, 1932
    • No. two-ten / Vitaphone No. 1364, April 23, 1932
    • No. 2-eleven / Vitaphone No. 1412, released June 1932
    • No. 2-12 / Vitaphone No. 1427, July 1932
  • He likewise appeared in a Vitaphone musical short, Seasons Greetings (1931), with Ruth Etting, Joe Penner, Ted Husing, Thelma White, Ray Collins, and others.
  • Ripley'south short films were parodied in a 1939 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon titled Believe It or Else. Released on June 25, 1939, directed by Tex Avery and written by Dave Monahan, it featured a running gag in which Egghead (a prototype Elmer Fudd) appeared to declare, "I don't believe it!" On November 5 of the aforementioned year, another Avery documentary parody, Fresh Fish, was released. Written by Jack Miller, this cartoon'southward running gag was a 2-headed fish that kept swimming onto the screen to enquire, "Pardon me, simply can y'all tell me where I can find Mister Ripley?"
  • 20th Century Fox produced another flick short titled Acquitted past the Sea, released on September 27, 1940, produced by Truman Talley and directed by Earl Allvine. This told an unusual story involving the Titanic.

Possible flick [edit]

In October 2004, Paramount Pictures appear plans for a moving picture that would chronicle the life of Robert Ripley. The moving picture was to exist produced past James Jacks and his Alphaville Films company, associated with Paramount. Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski were hired to write the script. Jacks explained: "It's about the exploits of Robert Ripley, one of the about pop newspaper cartoonists in the '30s and '40s, who was well known for going around the world and looking for oddities and getting into adventures while doing so. We desire to make a series of movies that, if not quite the truth, are the adventures that should have happened. We want to turn it into an Indiana Jones, a goofy version, as played by Johnny Depp. When they saw we had the writers from Larry Flynt, they thought that we wanted to brand the kinky version, simply we saw a chance to practice a Spielberg-type movie with one of their characters".[eighteen]

In Nov 2005, Tim Burton was fastened to straight the film, with Jim Carrey starring as Robert Ripley. Filming was to begin in October 2006, for a 2007 release. Paramount hinted that the flick, if successful, could be the start of a Ripley's pic serial.[nineteen] In add-on to Jacks, Sean Daniel and Richard D. Zanuck were to serve as producers for the moving picture.[20] Zanuck spent half-dozen weeks in Prc to lookout filming locations for the project.[21]

In June 2006, Paramount delayed the offset of production on the film for at least a yr because its projected upkeep went over the allowed $150 million. Carrey had waived his entire upfront bacon to help keep costs depression, but the project remained over budget. Burton and Carrey also wanted to accept Alexander and Karaszewski make changes to the film's script to focus more on Ripley's Believe It or Not column. Carrey was adamant on avoiding what happened with his previous project Fun with Dick and Jane, which required reshoots and boosted editing as a result of beginning product without a script. Filming had been scheduled to begin in Mainland china in Nov 2006. Although Paramount could have delayed production to leap 2007, the film was delayed farther to permit Burton to film Sweeney Todd.[22] [23]

In Dec 2006, Burton and Carrey approved author Steve Oedekerk to rewrite the script. Oedekerk had worked with Carrey on several previous projects. Product was to begin in China in winter 2008, for a 2009 release.[24] Later in January, Zanuck said he was no longer involved with the project, and that he was unaware that it was proceeding.[21] Oedekerk's draft was completed in June 2007, and was canonical that month past Paramount, Burton, and Carrey. At that fourth dimension, Carrey hoped to accept production finished by summer 2008.[25] Later that month, Paramount was searching for a new managing director.[26]

In October 2008, Chris Columbus pitched an thought for the film that was approved by Carrey and Paramount. Columbus' idea involved scrapping the previous Cathay-based storyline entirely. Negotiations were underway that month to hire Columbus as managing director, with plans to hire a author subsequently. Paramount planned to release the film in 2011, and hoped that information technology would be the start of a Ripley'southward film series.[27] In January 2011, Eric Roth was hired to write the script, with Carrey still attached to star. Ken Atchity and Chi-Li Wong joined the project as producers, alongside Jacks and Daniel.[20]

Idiot box [edit]

  • The first Believe It or Not TV series, a live testify hosted by Ripley, premiered on March 1, 1949. Soon later the 13th episode, on May 27, Ripley died of a heart attack and several of his friends substituted as host, including futurity Ripley's Believe It or Not! president Doug Storer. Robert St. John served as host from the 2nd flavor until the series ended on October five, 1950.
  • A revival of the original series, titled Ripley'south Believe It or Not!, aired from 1982 to 1986 on the ABC television network. Based on three pilots/specials conceived, produced and directed past Ron Lyon and Jack Haley, Jr. (1980–81), the series was a Haley/Lyon/Rastar production in association with Columbia Pictures. Featuring film star Jack Palance who hosted the pop series throughout its run, the series had iii different co-hosts, who appeared from season to season, initially actress Catherine Shirriff followed by Palance'due south daughter, Holly Palance, later singer Marie Osmond. The 1980s series reran on the Sci-Fi Channel (United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland) and Sci-Fi Channel (United states of america) during the 1990s; it concluding aired on NBCUniversal's horror/suspense-themed cable aqueduct Chiller.
  • A Canadian blithe series, Ripley's Believe It or Not!, was produced for Play a trick on Family in 1999 past Cookie Jar Amusement (at present WildBrain), and followed the adventures of "Michael Ripley", Robert Ripley'southward nephew. The testify was aimed at a younger audience, and would ofttimes feature Michael going around the world.[28]
  • Another revival, once once again titled Ripley's Believe It or Not!, aired from 2000 to 2003, produced past Columbia TriStar Tv on TBS. Hosted past actor Dean Cain, executive-produced past Dan Jbara and co-executive-produced past Dennis Lortz, the series took a slightly more sensationalistic approach to its subject field matter and "premiered as the highest-rated original series on cable" at that time.[29] The series was cancelled in October 2003 after four seasons. Like the previous syndicated live-action series, this latest edition moved to the Biography Channel for reruns, and continues to air today.
  • In 2006, the Philippines made a local adaptation of Ripley's Believe it or Not! with a local host. ABC 5 (now known as TV5) was the beginning to make it with Raymond Bagatsing equally host. The prove however was brusk-lived.
  • In 2008, GMA Network bought the rights and revived Ripley'south Believe It or Not! in the Philippines. This fourth dimension Chris Tiu of the Ateneo Blueish Eagles was chosen as host. Information technology is part of the Bilib Ka Ba? Nights/Araw-araw (Practise You Believe? Nights/Daily) cake of the network which premiered on August 18, 2008.
  • Some other revival titled Ripley's Believe Information technology or Not!, produced by Texas Coiffure Productions, with Bruce Campbell as the host, premiered on the Travel Aqueduct in 2019.[30] [31]

Internet and games [edit]

  • In 2006, the Ripleys.com website held a "Love Mr. Ripley" competition in which contestants submitted "unbelievable" stories and with a public vote selecting a winner. The submissions included stories about a ii-faced kitten, a car hurdler, a painting on human mankind sail, a snake swallowing a golfball, an unopened deck of cards in a thin-necked canteen, a collector of Converse shoes with over 400 pairs, a man who survived a dumptruck falling on him, a painting made of nail polish, a child who played sports while hopping on a pogo stick, and a tongue swallower. The winners were announced on December 15 the aforementioned year.
  • In 2003, a Ripley's Believe It or Not! pinball machine was released.[32]
  • The bespeak and click adventure game Ripley'southward Believe It or Not!: The Riddle of Master Lu was published and adult by Sanctuary Woods and released in 1995.

Museums [edit]

Ripley'southward Believe It Or Not museum at Innovative Film City in Bangalore, Bharat

When Ripley first displayed his collection to the public at the Chicago World'south Off-white in 1933, it was labeled Ripley'due south Odditorium and attracted over two meg visitors during the run of the fair (in an apparent promotional gimmick, beds were provided in the Odditorium for people who "fainted" daily). That successful exhibition led to trailer shows across the land during the 1930s, and Ripley's collections were exhibited at many major fairs and expositions, including San Francisco, San Diego, Dallas, and Cleveland. In New York City, the famed Times Square exhibit opened in 1939 on Broadway. In 1950, a twelvemonth after Ripley's decease, the first permanent Odditorium opened in St. Augustine, Florida. The Odditorium is housed in the Castle Warden, built in 1888 by an acquaintance of Henry Flagler, President of the Florida E Declension Railway.[33]

As of December 2010[update], there are 32 Ripley's Believe It or Non! Odditoriums around the earth. Odditoriums, in the spirit of Believe It or Not!, are oftentimes more simple museums cluttered with curiosities. Some include theaters and arcades, such as the ones in Gatlinburg, Tennessee and Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. Others are constructed oddly, such every bit the Orlando, Florida Odditorium which is built off-level as if the building is sinking.

Asia [edit]

Hong Kong Ripley's Believe It or Not! Odditorium in 2004.

Alphabetical, by country or commune:

  • Shanghai, China – This Ripley's museum is located at Huangpu River.
  • Victoria Elevation, Hong Kong (airtight) – There was an Odditorium in The Acme, opened in 1998 and closed on March 20, 2005.
  • Bangalore, India – This Ripley's Museum is at the Innovative Film metropolis.
  • Dki jakarta, Indonesia (closed) – This Ripley'southward museum, called the "Fun Odditorium", was located in the Pondok Indah Mall complex. Information technology was the largest Ripley's Odditorium in the world (2,000 m2; 22,000 sq ft). It opened on September 28, 1995[34] and closed in the late 1990s.
  • Kuwait City, Kuwait (closed) – This Ripley's museum was located in the Hadiqat Al Sheaab Amusement Park.
  • Genting Highlands, Malaysia – This Ripley's museum was located in the First World Plaza. It reopened as Ripley'due south Adventureland located on level four in SkyAvenue.
  • Mandaluyong, Philippines (closed) – This Ripley's museum was in the Shangri-La Mall in Ortigas.
  • Jeju Isle, South Korea (airtight) – This Ripley's museum is located at the Jeju Jungmun resort.
  • Pattaya, Thailand – This Ripley'southward museum is in Royal Garden Plaza in Pattaya. It appears equally if an aeroplane has crashed into it.

Europe [edit]

Denmark [edit]

  • Copenhagen – This Ripley's museum is a smaller one located close to the city hall and next to a museum of Hans Christian Andersen.

The Netherlands [edit]

  • Amsterdam - The Ripley's Believe It or Not! Amsterdam museum opened on June 23, 2016, at the Dam Square, Dam 21, in a building that belongs to the Heritage of Amsterdam. Information technology has more than 500 exhibits.[ citation needed ]

United Kingdom [edit]

  • Blackpool – Located at Blackpool Pleasance Embankment, this Ripley's museum is based in the pop vacation destination of Blackpool. Information technology was located farther north in the 1980s at a location adjacent to Cardinal Pier.[35]
  • Great Yarmouth (closed) – There was an Odditorium in Bully Yarmouth on the east coast of England. Information technology opened in 1993 and closed in 1997.[36] It is now an indoor miniature golf grade that uses some of the leftovers from the Odditorium as scenery for the holes.
  • London (airtight) – This Ripley's museum was the world's largest and it opened on August 20, 2008, at the London Pavilion, 1 Piccadilly Circus, and closed on September 25, 2017. It housed over 500 exhibits. It was famed for its big drove of Marilyn Monroe'due south personal belongings and interactive exhibits over 5 floors, including a mirror maze and illusion tunnel.

North America [edit]

Canada [edit]

Ripley's BION Niagara Falls

  • Cavendish, Prince Edward Island – This Ripley'south museum is located in a concentrated expanse of tourist attractions adjacent to the Prince Edward Island National Park. A lighthouse (the superlative broken) features the Ripley's sign. The museum is adjoined to a wax museum and also features a mini-golf attraction.
  • Niagara Falls, Ontario – This Ripley'due south museum is shaped like a toppled over Empire State Edifice with King Kong standing on peak of information technology. This is the 2d oldest Ripley's Museum in the globe and is one of iii in Canada. The museum was airtight for major renovations betwixt November 2015 and May 2016. The newly updated museum is the largest and most valuable museum for the company. Located beyond the street is a Ripley's 4D Moving Theatre, and up the street at that place is a Louis Tussaud'southward Wax Works which is endemic past Ripley's.
  • Toronto, Ontario – The Ripley's Aquarium of Canada opened in October 2013 next to the CN Tower and Metro Toronto Convention Eye.[37] The 150,000-square-foot (14,000 mtwo) structure boasts the longest underwater tunnel in North America. The aquarium was originally prepare to open in Niagara Falls, Ontario, near Great Wolf Order in 2007, but relocated to Toronto.[38]

Mexico [edit]

  • Guadalajara – Opened in 1994,[39] this Ripley'southward museum is a pocket-size one similar United mexican states Urban center's location. It is almost downtown.
  • Mexico Metropolis – Opened in 1992, this Ripley'southward museum is shaped like a medieval castle and has 14 exhibition halls within information technology. This was the first of three locations to open up in Latin America.
  • Veracruz – Opened in 2011, this Ripley museum is small and available in a mall with the associated Veracruz Aquarium and Wax Museum, has 150 figures on display, and features a mirror maze and rotating tunnel.

Usa [edit]

St. Augustine, Florida, Odditorium

Panama City Beach, Florida, Odditorium

Ripley'southward shark beingness produced.

California [edit]
  • Buena Park (closed) – This Ripley'due south Museum was located in Buena Park's E-Zone district on Embankment Boulevard, close to Knott's Berry Farm. This is the location where Steve Sindad broke the earth record for consuming ranch dressing, drinking 61 bottles worth (nearly seven gallons). Information technology opened in Baronial of 1990 and airtight on March 30, 2009.
  • Hollywood – This Ripley's Museum is on Hollywood Boulevard.
  • San Francisco – This Ripley'south Museum is located nigh Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco.
Florida [edit]
  • Key Westward (closed) – Opened on April 15, 1993 in the former Strand Theatre, this Ripley'south Museum was located on Duval Street. Information technology and then relocated to the former Planet Hollywood building nearby on July 6, 2003. It closed permanently in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Orlando – Opened in July of 1992, this museum is located on the decorated International Drive tourist corridor, and is congenital to appear equally though it is dropping into a sinkhole.
  • Panama City Beach – Opened in June of 2006, this Ripley's Museum is at the intersection of Forepart Beach Road, Middle Beach Road, and Thomas Drive on Panama City Embankment and is designed to look similar a 1950s luxury cruise liner that has run aground on the embankment. Information technology besides has a moving 4D theater.
  • St. Augustine – This is the oldest Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum, located in the Castle Warden. It was purchased shortly after Ripley's decease in 1949 and opened in 1950. Earlier becoming home to his vast collections from his many travels, "The Castle", as it is known, was once a hotel which played host to many famous guests, including Ripley and author/owner Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. It was originally a Moorish Revival style mansion, built in 1887 by millionaire William Warden as a winter habitation. Its popularity and success led Ripley'south associates to open new establishments throughout the The states and the world. Maybe not surprisingly, it is rumored to be haunted. Segments of the most contempo Ripley's TV series were filmed hither, including the opening credits. Amidst the attractions hither are a mummified cat, a 1⁄12 scale model of the original Ferris cycle made out of erector sets, life and death masks of famous celebrities (including Abraham Lincoln), and shamanistic apparati from cultures effectually the world.
Illinois [edit]
  • Chicago – The Museum on Wells Street in the Chicago Erstwhile Town area closed in 1987.
Maryland [edit]

Ripley'south Believe It or Non! in Bounding main City, Maryland

  • Baltimore – This Ripley's Museum opened on June 26, 2012, in the Light Street Pavilion of Harborplace on the Inner Harbor. The museum's enterance featured a sculpture of a sea monster known equally Chessie. It was dismantled and closed permanently in May 2020.[forty]
  • Ocean City – This Ripley's Museum is located on the boardwalk at Wicomico Street. It is a popular destination for tourists and it sits at the entrance to Jolly Roger's Pier Amusement Park. Information technology features a large model of a shark that appears every bit if it has crashed through the museum.
Missouri [edit]
  • Branson – This Ripley'south museum looks similar a stone building that was cracked by an earthquake.
New Bailiwick of jersey [edit]
  • Atlantic City – The Ripley's museum is on the Boardwalk. It opened in late June 1996.
New York [edit]
  • New York Metropolis (closed) – This location reopened in Manhattan on 42nd Street in July 2007. This was the largest Ripley's in the earth, housing over 1000 authentic artifacts and interactive exhibits. Information technology closed on November 28, 2021.[41]
Oregon [edit]
  • Newport – This Ripley'southward museum was funded by Jacob Walters and built in 1986. It is at the Historic Bayfront and one of two amusements known as Mariner Square, the other being Wax Works.
South Carolina [edit]

Odditorium in Myrtle Beach

  • Myrtle Beach – This Ripley's museum looks like a building cracked by a hurricane, located near the center of Myrtle Beach'southward honored Ocean Boulevard. Besides in Myrtle Embankment is a 5D Movement Theater, a mirror maze, Ripley's Haunted Adventure, and Ripley's Aquarium of Myrtle Beach. It opened in 1976.
Tennessee [edit]
  • Gatlinburg – The original museum was built in 1970. On July 14, 1992, a fire started from a neon lite fixture in a neighboring T-shirt store. It quickly spread and engulfed a total of twelve businesses in one city cake and damaged almost every building along the master street. From that Tuesday night to Wednesday morning, firefighters managed to get the situation nether control, but the Ripley'southward Odditorium was i of the twelve to be completely consumed. Some of Ripley's most prized and unique possessions were lost in the fire, although some artifacts were able to exist salvaged. The museum was rebuilt and opened in 1994 with nigh twice the amount of exhibit space, plus a tribute to the city's firefighters included among the collections. Artifacts salvaged from the blaze sport decals saying "I Survived the Burn down". Equally with other Ripley museums, information technology has an architectural theme by looking as if information technology has survived a major earthquake, with interior and outside feature cracks throughout. The Ripley'due south Visitor has since opened several other attractions in the Gatlinburg-Pigeon Forge expanse, including a "four-dimensional" theater, a state-of-the-art aquarium, a haunted factory, several arcades, two miniature golf courses, and a mirror maze, all of which carry the Ripley's brand proper noun and logo.[42]
Texas [edit]
  • El Paso (closed) – This Ripley's Museum is located at 7051 Due south Desert Boulevard in Canutillo, Texas.
  • Grand Prairie – This Ripley's Museum is located at 601 Eastward Safari Parkway in One thousand Prairie, Texas. It is west of downtown Dallas on IH-30 and is on the northwest intersection of Chugalug Line Road and IH-30, 7 miles (11 km) east of Six Flags Over Texas.
  • San Antonio – This Ripley'southward Museum is located beyond from the historic Alamo. Next door is Louis Tussaud'southward Waxworks, and just a short walk down the road is Ripley'due south Haunted Adventure.
Virginia [edit]
  • Williamsburg – This Ripley's Museum opened in 2006. It has 11 galleries and over 350 exhibits. At that place is also a 4D theater that shows 3D movies with added effects (air, water, scent, etc.).
Wisconsin [edit]
  • Wisconsin Dells – This Ripley's Museum franchise is owned by Concept Attractions.[43] The outside of the museum is designed as a temple with a plane crashed into its side. Information technology feature iii floors with 11 galleries with illusions and puzzles. It is located on Broadway, the downtown strip of Wisconsin Dells.[44]

Oceania [edit]

Australia [edit]

  • Golden Declension – This Ripley's museum is located at the popular tourist destination Surfers Paradise. Information technology reopened in the new Soul Centre on January 22, 2010, featuring a band of human oddities playing songs at the entrance.

Inaccuracies [edit]

Authorities at the company insist that they thoroughly investigate everything and ensure their accuracy before they publish their enquiry. This is emphasized on its television testify, where they often say "If you meet it on Ripley'southward, you lot can bet that it's existent". However, two claims[ specify ] appearing in their books have been dubbed "myths" past MythBusters. One merits which had previously appeared in Ripley'southward books, apropos an adventitious execution of 1,200 Turkish prisoners ordered under Napoleon Bonaparte, has had its accurateness called into question by Snopes.[45]

Ripley'due south has reported the urban legend of Frank Tower – an individual who was supposed to take survived the sinkings of the RMS Titanic, RMS Empress of Ireland, and RMS Lusitania – as being factual, just this story has been debunked by several sources.[46] [47]

Ripley'due south has also repeated the Muhlenberg legend, which claims that German was once i vote brusk of becoming the official linguistic communication of the United States.[48]

See also [edit]

  • Strange every bit It Seems, a rival publication
  • Lumberwoods, a virtual "unnatural history" museum
  • Museum of Jurassic Technology, an oddities museum

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External links [edit]

  • Official website Edit this at Wikidata
  • Inventory of the Doug and Hazel Anderson Storer Collection, 1920s–2003, in the Southern Historical Drove, UNC-Chapel Hill
  • National Cartoonist Society Honor, 1976: Paul Frehm
  • Ripley's Believe It or Not! at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on January xix, 2017.
  • Ripley On Radio

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